WorldHealthCareBlog.org » Adapting Einstein’s Formula to Health Management: a hosted discussion on innovation in health care

WorldHealthCareBlog.org » Adapting Einstein’s Formula to Health Management: a hosted discussion on innovation in health care: "Adapting Einstein’s Formula to Health Management by Scott MacStravic August 20, 2007 at 9:27 am · Filed under Chief Medical Officers, Health Plan/Payer CEOs, Disease Management, Health Management Albert Einstein used the formula E = MC2 to describe the conversion of mass into energy, later demonstrated with the atomic bomb. A similar formula applies to health management (HM), whether applied to consumers paying for their own services, employees, commercial insurance plan members or government plan beneficiaries. The difference is that the terms are different: * “E” represents effectiveness/efficiency if HM programs * “M” represents motivation in HM participants * “C1” reflects participants’ capability and confidence, self-efficacy * “C2” reflects participants’ consciousness of how/when to act While a wide range of interventions have been used to promote HM participant “compliance” or “adherence” to medication and lifestyle regimens, they all can be categorized as aiming to achieve increases in motivation, capability or consciousness. Many focus "